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The most important part just landed (the update to our readme):
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We are the non-profit host of RECAP, CourtListener, and the Big Cases bots. We use technology and advocacy to make the legal sector better.
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The most important part just landed (the update to our readme):
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It's a huge step forward!
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Finally, we're launching a bounty program! Find our old logos in the wild, email us, get stickers. Read the post for more details!
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This also launches our first store where our fans can get shirts, totes, and a whole bunch more. Check it out here: shop.printyourcause.com/campaigns/fr...
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It's time to say goodbye to our old mascot, FLiP, and launch our new branding. Say goodbye to our clip art person smushing money, and say hello to more cohesive logos that pull together CourtListener, Free.law, Bots.law and more. free.law/2024/07/05/n...
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The brief appealing the PACER class action settlement was filed last night. Here's the gist of it: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... #CL68504646
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Big day! We also just crossed TEN MILLION items in our case law database. Wow, this only took a decade! Huge congrats to the case law team: www.courtlistener.com/opinion/
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Big day! We also just crossed TEN MILLION items in our case law database. Wow, this only took a decade! Huge congrats to the case law team: www.courtlistener.com/opinion/
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Huh. Nobody seems to have noticed, but we crossed 400,000,000 docket entries in our PACER collection last month: www.courtlistener.com/recap/
😲 😲 😲
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Joshua J. Friedman
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A "Bluesky for Law" starter pack! A first draft—please let me know who I'm forgetting. I tried to start with people who post regularly and mostly post about law, but of course it's both over-inclusive and under-inclusive go.bsky.app/GBtyP1g
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We made a starter pack for our bots! go.bsky.app/Gsr5bCU
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Ok, who’s doing this for legal?
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And we're back. Sorry about that folks. We have a process to sweep everything from our database into our search engine, and the process was a bit too eager, it would appear.
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Indeed we do. 💀
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Yeah, sorry. We're DDOS'ing ourselves, it would appear.
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Our search system is having a bit of a hiccup, and may be down for a few minutes. Sorry!
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Mike Lissner
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Of course, you could also just hit the little bell icon to get an email alert or a webhook event too.
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Mike Lissner
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So here's a fun feature that's now possible: Make a podcast for a search query. For example, here's a search for "qualified immunity" being said in circuit courts: www.courtlistener.com?q=text%3A%22...
And here's the podcast to go with it: www.courtlistener.com/podcast/sear...
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Total now exceeds 4,000,000 minutes of transcribed oral argument audio. More coming.
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Another day, another million minutes of oral argument audio transcribed and searchable on CourtListener. The total now stands at 3,219,157 minutes.
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2,000,000 minutes of raw oral argument goodness now added to CourtListener.
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1,000,000 minutes added so far.
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By the end of this weekend, we will have transcribed nearly our entire oral argument collection. You can already begin searching it, but user experience still needs work. Try: www.courtlistener.com/audio/
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Emily Baker-White
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Some of these flaws even went beyond exposing sealed documents — one enabled bad actors to initiate new criminal cases!
State and local court cybersecurity is not the sexiest of topics, but it's hugely consequential for regular people, and breaches are baddddd.
www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...
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Emily Baker-White
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These vulnerabilities, discovered by security researcher Jason Parker (untaggable but here: bsky.app/profile/did:...) mean that potentially millions of sealed, confidential records could have been captured by identity thieves, extortionists, or foreign governments.
www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...
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Emily Baker-White
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In Florida, California, and more than 48 other state and local jurisdictions, court system vulnerabilities exposed medical records from child abuse victims, body cam footage, and other sealed documents through unsecured websites.
www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...
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If anybody is interested in helping out, we'd love it and can usually land PRs pretty quickly. The place to start would be here: github.com/freelawproje...
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We love Bluesky, but the Threads API is finally launched. We plan to bring the Big Cases bot to Threads, but have a number of other features and bugs we have to handle first. Honestly, it'll take us awhile to get it all done, so we'd love some help.
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It shouldn’t do that if you already have it installed. What version of things are you on, or could you file a bug?
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Two big changes on CourtListener today. ① We revamped our navigation bar to make it easier to find our features. ② We vastly expanded our API documentation to provide more clarity, details, and examples. Let us know what you think!
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Oh, also it’ll work with our custom podcasts. Make a podcast for a statute. 💥
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Of course, this will also work with our alerts. Get an email alert when somebody mentions a statute in court? Yes, please!
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It’s phenomenally good. Better than untrained humans.
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We're transcribing all of our oral argument audio so you can search for things said in court. We've been trying to do this for about eight years — Google even gave us free credits to do it! — but until recently the quality just wasn't good enough. OpenAI's API for this changes the game, hands down.
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A couple more pieces need to be completed, but it's close.
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Definitely. Good!
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We’ve had the new RECAP search engine live for a few months now. Feedback?
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Yeah, good point! We put it on LinkedIn. Not on our website yet: www.linkedin.com/posts/free-l...
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Nobody will care given...*gestures broadly,* but we also got a verdict today. In 2021 we and others were sued for putting legal records online. With pro bono support from GT Law, we fought to keep the records up. We won. They appealed. Today we won again! The records stay up!
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We just merged PR #1000 on Juriscraper, our tool for scraping PACER and other court websites. Woah, milestone.
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If you're looking for a way to DOS PACER in one request, one of our devs seems to have found it...
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Our director @michaeljaylissner.com joined Bob Ambrogi on his podcast. Give a listen to learn about what we do, why, and what’s next! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
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What’s even worse is that the US Courts lost the class action case about PACER fees, and have to pay out $100M to class members. But, wait for it, they’re still charging the exact same rates!
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So far, we've gotten back the contracts for Texas, which we're posting today.
The price? $1.5 million dollars — per month. You can read the contract and be the judge of whether that's a fair deal for a website. free.law/court-contra...
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We requested the contracts that state courts have with eFiling vendors in the five largest states.
These contracts lay out the features and pricing for the websites courts use to manage their cases. free.law/2024/05/14/c...
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Big Cases Bot
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I just got better! From now on, when I follow new cases:
- I'll include a link to the complaint if I have it.
- I'll include the date of the case, if it's more than a month old.
Good stuff, and contributed by one of my followers! Open source at it's best! github.com/freelawproje...
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A lawyer from San Diego is holding up the PACER class action settlement by appealing it to the Federal Circuit. If you want to follow the case, you can subscribe here: www.courtlistener.com/alert/docket...
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Get your Free Law Project stickers!!
donate.free.law/forms/stickers
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Trademark Cases Bot
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Ready when you are, Del Monte. 🥦
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ProPublica got the Pultizer for their SCOTUS reporting! These folks did some amazing work on this series.
We were proud to play our part as the source of financial disclosure data they used. Here's our write up of just one of the ways our data empowered their reporting: free.law/2023/12/21/p...